2021 NFL season Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, widely regarded as the greatest NFL player of all time, formally announces his retirement after 22 professional seasons.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports American bobsledder Elana Meyers announces that she has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the upcoming Winter Olympics.
U.S. State Department The U.S. State Department announces that they have ordered government employees and their families to leave Belarus amid ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Quebec Premier François Legault suspends a plan to tax people who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 in order to protect "social cohesion" in the province.
The European Union restricts the validity of the EU Digital COVID certificate to only nine months after having received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices approves the phase III trial of the Hipra COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Norway lifts almost all remaining COVID-19-related restrictions except for face mask rules due to the country's high vaccination rate.
2022 Haiti floods Three people are killed and at least 2,500 families have been evacuated amid heavy rains and flooding in Haiti.
2022 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt A coup attempt is made in Guinea-Bissau. President Umaro Sissoco Embalo says that "many" members of the security forces have been killed in a "failed attack against democracy" as both the African Union and ECOWAS condemn the attempted coup.
Russo-Ukrainian War Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the United States of trying to "draw Russia into war" in Ukraine as a pretext to impose more sanctions in order to "contain Russia's development". Putin also says that the U.S. has ignored Russia's concerns about the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe.
The Luhansk People's Republic accuses Ukraine of deploying a 9K33 Osa anti-aircraft missile system in a residential area of Popasna, a majority Russian-speaking city near the frontline.
A Ukrainian Air Force drone strike kills a pro-Russian insurgent on the frontline in Donbas, according to the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.